Stubless check and columnar cash book.



VPATBNTBD JUNE 6, 1905.

A. M. BENBDIG. STUBLESS CHECK AND GOLUMNAR CASHBOOK.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 7,1903;

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'- A9 /8 ,Q0 y J RICHARD Ros {Ne ST/m oNER bj UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

STUBLESS CHECKl AND COLUMNAR `CASH BOOK- SPECIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,865, dated June 6, 1905.

Application filed October 7, 1903. Serial No. 176,139.

To CLZZ'whOi/n, it may concert/b:

Be it known th at I, AUGUSTINMARION BENE? 'New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stubless Check and.

Oolumnar Cash Books; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and.eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in accounting systems, and particularly to a combination of check and cash book.

The object in view is the saving of time and labor andthe provision of means for keeping a full record of the data of each check issued. This object isattained by the employment of a check superposed upon a sheet ruled with columns for cash and other items, the check being adapted to be `filled out, While the car-V bon-sheet or other manfolding substance is 'retained between the check and cash sheet.

The invention consists of certainV novel construction,- combinations, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.`

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a plan view of two contiguous pages of a cash-book and check-book combined, embodying the features of the present invention, some of thechecks being indicated as removed. Fig.'2 represents a perspective view of'a carbon-holding frame adapted for use in connection with the present accounting system. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a cash-book and checkbook combined, showing a little different arrangement for the columns of the cash-book portion and leaving space upon the checks for advertising matter. A

The present improved system of accounting involves the employment of a cash-book which may be provided with suitably-ruled pages, and between each two of such pages is interposed a sheet of blank checks.

I have illustrated in-the accompanying drawings a cash-book embodying the Jfeatures of the present invention in an open condition, disclosing one page l of one leaf and the opposite page 2 of the 4'next leaf, some of the checks of the interposed sheet of checks 3 being removed. Sheet 3 is secured between the pages l and 2 and may be suitably scored for facilitating removal of the Vchecks one `at a time.

Centrally of page 2 is provided a longitudinal comparatively wide column 4, positioned in operation beneath that portion of the check 'sheet 3 which contains the blank lines for receiving the inserted data. Each sheet 3 is made up of a number of blank checks 5, each preferably provided near its outer end with a blank space for the reception of numerals indicating the amount of the check, and beneath this space upon page 2 is arranged a longitudinal column 6 for the reception of said iigures, whereby when all of the checks of one of the sheets 3 have been filled out and removed page 2 will disclose full data of each of the` checks and a column of the sums, which may be footed up for giving totals. On the opposite side of column 4 from column 6 may be ruled off any suitable columns 7 and 8 for Vav rious accounts as personal and sundry and the like, to which the sums indicated in the column 6 may be posted, so that the book may serve as a journal as well as cash and check book and the items may be posted di'- rectly from the columns 7 and 8 as well as from similar columns 9 9 upon page 1 directly to the ledger. When a double-entry ledger is being used in connection with the presentimprovzed book, the total of any of the columns 7, 8, or 9 may be posted to the account corresponding to the `particular column and debited by cash in such account. If a cash account is kept in the ledger, the same may be credited to Sundries for the total footing of the column 6.

At a convenient point on page 1 I contemplate providing suitable columns 10 l() for indicating the amount of deposits, so that the total footing of column 6 may be subtracted from the total deposits for indicating the amount in bank.

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This sheet in operation is placed beneath the particular check 5 to be filled out, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the date and name of the person lin whose favor the check is given, the amount of the check, and the signature, written, preferably, with a stylographic pen, so as to give a clear impression on page 2. The check is now torn off and issued, and the desired data appears upon page 2 without requiring the filling of stubs or other copying from the original check. The frame 12, with its sheet 11, may next be moved beneath the next succeeding check, and so on until the entire sheet 3 has been torn out, and columns 7 8, and 9 are footed up and totals carried for- Ward and a balance of money in bank struck in the manner above indicated and also carried forward.

In Fig. 3 I have illustrated my improved cash-book and check-book arranged somewhat differently from the showing in Fig. 1. In said Fig. 3 the check-book portion is arranged in a similar manner to the book shown in Fig. 1, there being a central column 13 for receiving the written portions setting forth the amount of the check and a numeral-column 14 for receiving the numerical amounts. In

.this instance also the check-sheet is so arranged that one end thereof, as at 15, is pro- :vided with sufficient space to receive adver- .coincide with the column 14 of the check-book page. The reverse side of the check-book page is arranged for use as a cash-book, there .being central column 18 for stating the items for which payments are made and columns 19 and 2O to the left to right of the items-column, respectively, for receiving figures indicating the receipts and cash payments. Between the column containing the cash payments and the check-book column on the next page are arranged a series of columns, as 21, in which may be placed iigures indicating particular articles for which payments are made in cash or by check. In this manner the cash account and the check account are distinct and separate, and the cash and bank balances are separately shown.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A combined check and cash book comprising a series of pages substantially equal in size, every other page being subdivided by weakened lines into checks containing printed matter and each having spaces suitably designated by the context, the similarly-located spaces of each check-page being arranged in columns, the remaining pages each having columns upon one side and facing one of the check-pages, said columns being suitably designated for debits and credits while the other side is provided with columns beneath the corresponding check-page and which are suitably designated for the reception ofthe data entered upon the checks, said last-mentioned columns normally registering with the columns of spaces upon the checks.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUSTIN MARION llllNllllC.

Witnesses:

J osnrH RUSSELL, VANoE FORCE 

